Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tende...
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Date of birth:
- Dec 7, 1949 (age 60 years)
Place of birth:
Place Musical Career Began:
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1971
Instruments Played:
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- Thomas Alan Waits,
- Waits, Tom,
- Ton Waits,
- Tom Waites
